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Put Old on Hold

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Barbara Morris gives practical advice that individuals of every age will find beneficial As a registered pharmacist she sees many people turning to medication in a desperate attempt to feel healthy. Instead she teaches the reader how to eat healthily and live both a healthy and active life. This, of course, is the key to feeling both young and alive again. I especially liked the chapter entitled "Attitude", which is full of wisdom about the realities of retiring. This is an inspirational book, and the author's own vitality and personal philosophy are extremely motivating.

Toni Rey, author of STill Working After All These Years

For many, aging is like an unwelcome guest! Behaviors that at first seem charming, even endearing, quickly become annoying, obnoxious, and even, at times, unbearable. Aging steals the wisdom and goodness we have won through the timeless practice of trial and error. Just on the verge on getting it right (finally), some oldsters become as children. This time, they have no adulthood to look forward to.

Should we accept such a fate gracefully? Author Barbara Morris says no. She believes there is plenty we can all do, starting today, to persuade the #$%^&* ducks of aging to nest in someone else's backyard. In a delightful, conversational tone, Morris, a registered pharmacist, offers solutions in three important areas: health, retirement, and attitude.

Morris suggests that a healthy lifestyle is a great defense against aging. Through her own experiences in her pharmacy, she has come to believe that over-medication creates some of the ills of aging. She offers common-sense solutions in the areas of diet, exercise and life-style choices to create a life where growing older does not equate to aging.

The life of the retiree is not for Morris. She continues to contribute to the community around her as a practicing pharmacist and as a productive author and lecturer. She believes the choice to retire may in itself contribute to aging and that remaining active and employed will help keep us young.

Perhaps her most important contribution is that Morris tackles attitudes as key players in aging. How many times have you excused a lapse of memory as a "senior moment?" Or avoided learning a new skill because "I'm too old?" For that matter, how many times has a physician told you to expect certain (unpleasant) changes because "you're getting older"? Morris makes the case that changing our attitudes will change our outcomes and Put Old on Hold.

Her photo on the book's back cover shows a woman who looks at least 20 years younger than her chronological age. In person, she's even younger. With results like these, you know she's on to something significant.

I'm on my third reading of Boomers Really Can Put Old on Hold. I find something new - something I'm sure she put there just for me - each time I read it. This is an important book. Get it, read it, and reread it. You can, and you should, Put Old on Hold.

Phyllis Staff, Ph.D.
author, "How to Find Great Senior Housing"
and
"128 Ways to Prevent Alzheimer's and Other Dementias"

I couldn't put down Barbara Morris's new book Put Old On Hold. Save her ability to grab me by the funny-bone with personal satire, her book is a self-contained anti-aging capsule in itself. As a practicing pharmacist, she gives us many (laugh-out-loud) accounts of the degeneration of human consumption - sorry Emeril - and likens common American cuisine to, well, something like turtle turds.

From a micro sense, however, Put Old On Hold, touts and challenges readers to create their own assault on the aging process. It left this reader to put the book down - after first reading cover to cover - and take an inventory of my current herbal, vitamin and mineral supplementation (among other things like revisit my yoga exercise video library).

Moreover, setting my own personal healthcare biases aside, the most exciting message of Put Old On Hold is its ability to give hope. In this writers opinion, hope is a most important commodity in a world of faster, better, more. Instead, Barbara gives it to us straight from the hip in a practical, been there done that format.

Here's just a sample of lessons learned:

-The power of positive self- talk
-Secrets for "thinking" yourself young
-The honest truth about the illusion of retirement
-Key secrets to vitality, anti-aging and better living in a second lifetime

I believe anyone, regardless of age, will be excited about a future which may once have seemed uncertain after reading Barbara's book. Put Old on Hold will be reference I'll continue to use today tomorrow and 50 years from now. Thanks to Barbara, I'm not afraid anymore - If at age 74 the goddess of goddesses tells me I can be just like her, Bam! I'm all over it.

My take away from this woman's advice is that the ONLY value a person has in life is from continuing to stay in the workforce in a job you get paid for. If you "retire" to have more time with family and friends or to do volunteer work you will slide into terrible depression and no one (including yourself) will think of you as valuable in society.

There are many things people can do without getting financial reward that can make them a contributing member of society.

She is very sarcastic about anyone who might think they want to spend time traveling with there spouse.

Some of her advice is fine: eat well, exercise,quit smoking, see your doctor, etc. Stuff we've all heard before)

I have to assume that despite what she says she is very insecure and needs her "job" to gain value in life.

I say buy Jane Fonda's book on the same subject. She is certainly more realistic about the process of getting older and puts the advantages of what you learn during your life time to use and not by being in denial about what happens as we get older.

This book is full of wonderful information and advice for all ages. I have read many health books, but this is one of the best. Read what Barbara says about vitmains, drinking water and attitude.

Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (9/06)

One look at the cover and picture of author Barbara Morris tells you that she practices what she preaches and it works! From beginning to end, Morris not only gives great explanations and advice on keeping youth on your side at any age, but you will walk away feeling as if you had spent a few hours in the living room with your friend talking about how NOT to grow old. You walk away knowing that what she says makes sense and she believes what she says.

The author gives some down-to-earth reasons about why some people seem to age quicker than others. After reading her ideas, theories and hints on how not to grow old, you will surely walk away feeling assured that you too can "put old on hold." Morris discusses everything from diet to medicines and takes each idea apart bit by bit explaining why it does or doesn't work. She's not only spent plenty of time researching the ideas and techniques but also using them, showing her very young-looking self on the front smiling. There's no reason why you can't have the same results as she's had and walk away from her wonderfully thought-out and presented book ready to try it.

The best part of the book is that it's not for any one target group. You can read it and benefit if you are 25 or 75. Morris literally pulls up a seat in your living room and speaks to you as a friend and long-time acquaintance. You truly will close the book after page 201 and say "I really feel like this makes sense and I think I can do this." Whether you take on a couple of techniques and advice or all of it, there's no way that you won't feel a difference in yourself and your life after making some changes. Perhaps all you've needed to keep from growing old is someone to sit down with you and talk it out -- someone to point out the facts, thoughts and ideas that you may or may not already know but need to be reminded. Barbara Morris is the person to do it. She befriends you and makes you realize the realities of life, giving you the pep talk of your life. If you don't walk away more knowledgeable and willing than ever in making some changes to "Put Old on Hold" after reading this book, you never will.

A well thought-out, informative book that I'm certain will never be endorsed by the nursing homes of America! I for one prefer not to have to utilize their system if I can help it and after reading Morris' book, I think there's a real possibility of never having to!

Received book free of charge.

I'm going to pester you like a two-year-old and insist that you MUST read this book! But wait... assumming two year olds act a certain way is exactly the start of what can keep us from reaching our ageless potential! "Put Old on Hold" provides practical advice for keeping yourself healthy and attractive. More importantly, "Put Old on Hold" is an attitude: one that celebrates life and our potential for greatness! It wasn't until I read this book that I really stopped to consider: how much of my life is influenced by others' perceptions of what I should be doing at "my age"? This book has been truly liberating for me and I know it will be for you, too. I encourage you to read it and consider how you'll make today and the next more fabulous for yourself and others.

Reading Put On Hold is like sitting down with your mother, doctors, nutritionist and minister all rolled into one and having a loving, spirited conversation that will spur you to action. Barbara Morris' retirement reality check is particularly sobering. I'm glad she helped me get a new attitude. I'm replacing aging with seamless living and you can too. The tone of her book is so warm and enlightening that your only regret will be that you that you didn't read it sooner. Barbara will remind you it's never too late to take control of your health, get a job that pays (or whatever you want to do that you may have thought you were too old for) and maintain an attitude that promotes wellness, wholeness and self-esteem. This is not only good for you, but for those you are around and even society at large. Plus, her book shows you how to accomplish all that. You'll have to be vigilant, but it's easier than you think. Putting old age on hold is actually a lot of fun because the physical, mental, social and spiritual rewards are so phenomenal. Barbara's work as a pharmacist makes her book the perfect gift for anyone (of any age) you want to help adopt a holistic lifestyle, but they will only listen to someone in the medical field. Her insights into over-the-counter and prescription medicine benefits and side effects are invaluable. Join her and me in banishing an entitlement outlook that many adopt as they get older. It is truly more blessed to give than receive. You'll count your blessings, put poor choices to bed and answer the question, "What's age got to do with it?" with a resounding NOTHING!!

Aging is Not Dying!

We are, or should be, wiser today about everything - healthcare, personal development and our dreams. If you are not wiser, then read, "Put Old on Hold" and let Barbara Morris do it for you.

Author Barbara Morris says it all in her engaging, informative, common-sense book, "Put Old on Hold". Even if you are not close to what you preceive 'old' to be, get a copy of this book and start planning now!

Plan to live a great life - not only a healthy life, but a full life, if you follow Barbara's guidleines about retirement and life styles. If you can be half as active as Barbara, you have the aging nonsense beat.

Buy this book now and use it as an encylcopiedia of resources to stay alive and well, longer and longer, better and better.

Remember, aging is not dying but living.

Joanne Victoria, Author, "Vision With a Capital V - Create the Business of Your Dreams".